Passing along: ESPN analyst and former All-Pro safety Brian Dawkins has made the San Francisco 49ers his Super Bowl pick for the 2013 season. He explains why in the video above, but first he offers thoughts on cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha. In short, Da...

You might have noticed the NFL team-by-team predictions with won-lost records posted to the new team sites and to the divisional blogs Wednesday morning. You can find those team sites here: Arizona, St. Louis, San Francisco and Seattle. In the ...

A 7-9 prediction for the Arizona Cardinals suggests only a two-game improvement from 2012, but that is misleading. The 2012 team, which lost 11 of its final 12 games, was horrible and horribly undermanned by season's end. The current team will be ...

The two-time defending NFC West champion San Francisco 49ers remain strongest where it often matters most: at quarterback, along the offensive line and in the defensive front seven. They have a dynamic tight end in Vernon Davis and should get another...

You might have noticed ESPN's Skip Bayless suggesting the Seattle Seahawks would challenge within the AFC this coming season. The Seahawks left the AFC for the NFC in 2002, of course. Bayless went on "First Take" and said the AFC reference was a sarc...

We haven't been hurting for St. Louis Rams items since Nick Wagoner joined the ESPN coverage team, but that's OK. We've got some ground to make up after hitting other teams harder for reasons related directly to on-field performance. And so I'm ha...

San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh is going to l-l-love the NFC West video preview featuring ESPN's Merril Hoge and Herm Edwards. Both picked a team other than the 49ers to win the division in 2013, giving Harbaugh the type of we-get-no-respect a...

Retired San Francisco 49ers great Roger Craig, previously an outspoken supporter of coach Jim Harbaugh, has gotten more specific in his predictions for greatness. This was Craig to the San Francisco Chronicle in January 2012: "I see these guys doi...

Mel Kiper Jr. is listing the St. Louis Rams and Arizona Cardinals among five NFL teams he thought enjoyed outstanding offseasons to this point. This comes a couple days after Matt Williamson gave "A" grades to the Cardinals and Seattle Seahawks ...